Re-establishment of species from synonymies based on DNA barcoding and phylogenetic analysis using Diplopterygium simulans (Gleicheniaceae) as an example.

Because synonymy treatment traditionally relies on morphological judgments, it usually causes many problems in species delimitation and in the biodiversity catalogue. For example, Diplopterygium simulans, which belongs to the Gleicheniaceae family, has been considered to be synonymous with D. glaucu...

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Main Authors: Jiang-Ping Shu, Hui Shang, Dongmei Jin, Hong-Jin Wei, Xi-Le Zhou, Hong-Mei Liu, Yu-Feng Gu, Ying Wang, Fa-Guo Wang, Hui Shen, Rui Zhang, Bayu Adjie, Yue-Hong Yan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2017-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5351838?pdf=render